Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?


"Kevin G." <KevinGravelle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1180542548.173573.300090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I am in the process of creating a website for my wife's clothing
embroidery business. I am close to pushing it to "production" on the
Web. The site is already sitting on the Web, but users are re-
directed to an "Under Construction" page when they access my URL.

One issue that concerns me is page load speed. When I try accessing
my site at work (within my company's firewall), almost all of my pages
take 2-3 minutes to load. One of the pages contains many images, but
all of the others have one or two images on the page. Almost all of
my pages connect to a database (SQL Server 2005), but do basic queries
to retrieve data for dropdowns, strings for image names, etc.

The reason I think this may be firewall-related is because I have had
several friends and acquaintances access the site (providing them
direct links to specific pages within my site) from their homes and/or
work locations and all of the pages will return in five (5) seconds or
less.

What, if anything, could be restricting my ability to access my
website's pages from work in a timely manner? Why am I not
experiencing this "phenomenon" with any other sites?

I am hosting this website at home on a machine running Windows XP Pro
using IIS.

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

You're putting up a Web site with solutions you wrote?
You're using IIS on Windows XP.
You have SQL Server running on the same box.
You have not secured the O/S, file system, registry, user accounts, or IIS itself for a machine that's exposed to the Internet.
Most likely, you have not even secured SQL server.

Do you even know what is in the link means, which I suspect the Web solutions and everything else on that machine is open to attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

I read the part about you may go to Apache. It doesn't make a difference what Web server you use or what O/S you use too.

If you have not done your home work on the security aspects, then the site is nothing but hack bait and a jumping off point to attack others and possibly other networks.

You may have more concerns than some page download speed.



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